Why We are Divided

How does your brand of kool-aid taste? How do you prefer your lies? At the risk of speaking for everyone, I'll do my best to only speak for me. We
are divided. Maybe it's along party lines or maybe it's across gender belief. Maybe it's economic or perhaps liberal rights. Pick an argument
and you are sure to find someone to argue. Hell, sometimes I like to pick a losing side in hopes to gain some perspective and knowledge.

What is vital is that this divide really isn't as important as social media/Hollywood/MSM would make you believe. Think about going through your
everyday lives and out of the hundreds of people you may see each day you actually have some sort of grievance with. I'm sure you can name a few per
day if you tried but lets be honest. They aren't that many by comparison.

So, why are we here? Well it's simple. Many slices of the pie are easier to manage. Micro-manage if you will. I see the threads and the
conversations happen in real time. Questions like "how do we fix it?" or "where do we go from here" are the ever common eventuality. Well, take
it from this no-one from nowhere on the internet, if we can not agree on simple commonalities, things will never get better.

Think about it this way, what would change if we all called our representatives on the same day with the same simple grievance. What if we all
stopped paying our taxes for a week or more. What if we all marched under a similar cause on our state houses?

So, what are these similarities? Can you name one or more? Government bloat and taxes would be mine. Social security a close third.

By no means do I expect a hand holding peace dance but FFS, the majority to have things in common and I think it's high time to focus on those to get
our representatives to do our bidding!

Well we are always running out of time. What that means.....who knows.

The collective we are fodder, collateral damage, pawns when divided. When united, we are exactly what the constitution appoints, the people.
Every right is under some sort of attack and scrutiny and with every day that passes, a little more is eroded away. While each right may not directly
pertain, as a whole it will and while one may not care for firearms as much as speech, it is important to realize they are one in the same.

I feel like our liberty is being taken and everyone wants to argue minutia. I say do you, but don't expect everyone else to do it too. I already
know what is important to me. I don't need your help spending my time, resources and money.

See that work ethic molecule? That can be exploited and used, same with the personal responsibility node. Common sense particle and sense of
humor cells can be enlarged based upon an somewhat open mind.

To put it blunt, you will find that a lot of the "right" are getting annoyed with thought policing that is coming from the left with insane logic like
this

The war of meme's and the internet in general that allowed a lot of people to voice their concerns over how they are being forced to act by a minority
who has all the same rights as everyone else but whom believe they are held back by the white man.

A lot of the right who feel this way would defend the lefts life choices and freedom of speech but do not want to be policed on what they can think or
say themselves. Seeing some of the videos and stories coming out of America to us in Blighty just make you seem insane.

Spoilers - Not all left are like this, in the same way not all right are nazi's

We are divided by design. Our whole human community is divided by design, Think of the things that divide us.

politics
religion
economics
sport
race
colour
the nature of business

Most of this division is of our own (human) making, As Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England, addressing the United States Bankers'
Association, NYC 1924. Said "By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for
questions of no importance."

Each talking head has their own agenda and in only fuels the divide. Who is out there speaking of immediate concession of frivolous terms to the
benefit of a greater cause. Who is out there saying there are more important things and that holding up the constitution on equal premises are
mandatory?

originally posted by: DiaJax
So why doesn't everyone take off their party hats and just pick topics that both people can get behind. Like net neutrality. I'm positive no one
wants Internet censorship.

Hmm?

It's interesting watching liberals 'get behind' "Net Neutrality" while screaming for all the social media's to censor every view besides their
own / contrary to theirs as "hate speech".

When their vocal "minority" is supported by, or at least the discussions are deflected/derailed/ignored by the supposed silent 'majority' within them,
how is anyone to be expected to find a middle ground with them?

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